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JOHN M. ORBELL Emeritus Professor, Political Science Department Address: Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Straub Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 Email: [email protected] Phone: 541 3460133 Fax: 541 3464914 PERSONAL DATA: Born June 3, 1936, New Zealand US and New Zealand citizen. Married, two children DEGREES AWARDED: B.A. (History) - University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1957 M.A. (History) - University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1960 Ph.D. (Political Science) - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1965. Dissertation

dealing with the origins of the protest movement among black college students in the early 'sixties. Advisor: James W. Prothro

HONORS Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Science, University of Oregon, 1997- PREVIOUS POSITIONS: 1960-61 High school teacher in New Zealand 196l-1964 Teaching and research assistant, Department of Political Science, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1964-1965 Instructor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University,

Columbus, Ohio 1965-1967 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University,

Columbus, Ohio. 1967-1969 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Oregon,

Eugene, Oregon 1969-1973 Associate Professor, University of Oregon June-

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Aug., 1972 Visiting lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

1973- Professor, University of Oregon May, 1973- Nov, 1974 Visiting lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury June- Aug., 1975 Visiting lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury 1976-1979 Department Head, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon 1979-1983 Director, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Oregon 1983-1985 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences,

University of Oregon 1985-1986 Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon

University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 1986-1987 Visiting Merrill Professor of Political Science, Political Science Department,

Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322. Spring, 1993 Visiting Merrill Professor of Political Science, Political Science Department,

Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322. 1998-2001 Director, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon Spring, 2003 Emeritus professor, University of Oregon SCHOLARSHIP: In progress: “The evolutionary roots of human sociality.” With Tim Johnson & Mikhail Myagkov. An

NSF-funded laboratory project developing an evolutionary explanation of our previously published findings with respect to the human propensity to form cooperative groups in the domain of losses more than in the domain of gains. In progress.

Modeling the human response to abrupt climate change, worldwide. An NSF-funded project

(Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation). Oregon PI; Project PI Oleg Smirnov, Stony Brook. With Douglas Kennett (archaeology) and Amy Lobben (geography) at Oregon, and Haipeng Xing (statistics) and Minghua Zeng (climate science) Stony Brook.

Publications: “An Evolutionary Account of Suicide Attacks: The Kamikaze Case.” Forthcoming in Political

Psychology. With Tomonori Morikawa. “The Selective Consequences of War.” Forthcoming. With Holly Arrow, Oleg Smirnov and

Douglas Kennett (2007). In Thompson, L. and K. Behfar (Eds.). Conflict in organizational groups: New directions in theory and practice. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press Board.

“Ancestral Warfare and the Evolutionary Origins of ‘Heroism.’” November, 2007. With Oleg


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Smirnov, Holly Arrow and Doug Kennett. in Journal of Politics. Pp. 927-940. “Evolutionary Psychology and a More Satisfactory Model of Human Agency.” 2007. In

Cooperation: A Powerful Force in Human Relations. Edited by B.A. Sullivan, M. Snyder, and J.L. Sullivan. Blackwell. With James Hanley, Jason Hartwig and Tomonori Morikawa.

“Mindreading and Manipulation in an Ecology of Prisoner’s Dilemma Games: Laboratory

Experiments,” Journal of Bioeconomics, (2006) 200:67-83. With Mikhail Myagkov. “Science, Anti-Science, and Rational Choice.” The Political Economist; Newsletter of the

section on political economy, American Political Science Association. Fall, 2005. “A Bias toward Sociality when Confronting Loss,” 2005. Politics and the Life Sciences. 25: 13-

19. With Tim Johnson and Mikhail Myagkov. “Teaching Bioeconomics: A Political Scientist’s Experience Teaching Evolutionary

Psychology.” Journal of Bioeconomics (2005) 7: 41-44. “‘Machiavellian’ Intelligence and the Evolution of Cooperative Dispositions.” 2004. Orbell,

John, Tomonori Morikawa, Jason Hartwig, James Hanley and Nicholas Allen. The American Political Science Review, 98: 1. Pp. 1-16.

“‘Social Poker: A Laboratory Test of Predictions from Club Theory.” Scott Crosson, John Orbell

and Holly Arrow. Rationality and Society. May, 2004: 16, No. 2. Pp. 225-248. “Conflict, Interpersonal Assessment, and the Evolution of Cooperation; Simulation Results.”

2003. In Trust, Reciprocity, and Gains from Association; Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research, edited by Elinor Ostrom and James Walker, Russell Sage Foundation. With James Hanley and Tomonori Morikawa. Pp. 170-206.

“Cognitive Requirements for Conflict of Interest Games; A Functional Analysis.” With

Tomonori Morikawa and James Hanley. Politics and the Life Sciences, March, 2002. 21:1, Pp. 3-12.

“The Evolution of Political Intelligence: Simulation Results.” With Tomonori Morikawa and

Nicholas Allen. British Journal of Political Science, 2002. 32: 613-639. “Physical Attractiveness, Opportunity and Success in Everyday Exchange.” May 1998.

American Journal of Sociology 103: 1565-92. With Matthew Mulford, Catherine Shatto and Jean Stockard.

"Individual Experience and the Fragmentation of Societies." 1996. American Sociological

Review: 61: 1018-1032. With Langche Zeng and Matthew Mulford.


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"The Robustness of Cognitively Simple Judgment in Ecologies of Prisoner's Dilemma Games." 1996. BioSystems; A Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences: 37. With Audun Runde and Tom Morikawa, 81-97.

"Teaching Evolution, Cooperation and Ethics." 1996. Politics and the Life Sciences. March.

121-124. "The Benefit of Optional Play in Anonymous and One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Games." 1995.

In K. Arrow, R. Mnookin, L. Ross, A. Tversky, R. Wilson (eds.), Barriers to conflict Resolution. Norton & Co., with Robyn Dawes, 62-85.

"The Advantage of Being Moderately Cooperative." 1995. The American Political Science

Review 89: 601-611. September. With Tom Morikawa and Audun Runde. "Cooperation under Laissez faire and Majority Decision Rules in Group-level Social Dilemmas,"

with Robyn Dawes. In David Schroeder (ed.), Social Dilemmas; Perspectives on Individuals and Groups, Praeger. 1995.

"Trust, Social Categories And Individuals: The Case Of Gender." 1994. Motivation and Emotion

18: 109-128. June. With Robyn Dawes and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. "Hamlet And The Psychology Of Rational Choice Under Uncertainty." 1993. Rationality and

Society.127-140. "Social Welfare, Cooperators' Advantage And The Option Of Not Playing The Game." 1993.

American Sociological Review 58: 787-800. December. With Robyn Dawes. "Simple Dilemmas, Complex Dilemmas, and Experimental Research. 1992. Small Group

Research. February, 23: 4-25. With Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. "Religion, Context and Cooperation with Strangers." 1992. Rationality and Society, July. With

Marion Goldman, Matthew Mulford and Robyn Dawes. "Covenants Without the Sword; the Role of Promising in Social Dilemma Circumstances." 1991.

With Robyn Dawes. In Ken Koford and Jeffrey B. Miller, (eds.) Social Norms and Economic Institutions, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1991.

"A 'Cognitive Miser' Theory Of Cooperators' Advantage." 1991. The American Political Science

Review. June. With Robyn Dawes. "Response to McLean." 1991. American Political Science Review. December. With Robyn

Dawes. "The Limits of Multilateral Promising." 1990. Ethics, vol. 100, April, 616-627. With Robyn

Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt,


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"The Experimental Study of Social Dilemma Behavior." 1990. CogSciNews, Spring, 3, #1, 4-6. "Collective Rationality in Dilemma Situations for the Benefit of Us--not Me, or my Self-

esteem." in Jane Mainsbridge (Ed.), 1990 Beyond Self Interest, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

"Selfishness Examined: Cooperation in the Absence of Egoistic Incentives." 1989. Behavioral

and Brain Science, December, 12, No. 4, 683-699. With Linnda Caporael, Robyn Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt. (A "target" paper with thirty open peer commentators).

"Thinking in Sociality; Authors' Response." 1989. Behavioral and Brain Science, December, 12,

No. 4, 727-739. With Linnda Caporael, Robyn Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt. (An extended response to open peer commentary on "Selfishness examined...".)

"Not Me or Thee but We: The Importance of Group Identity in Eliciting Cooperation in

Dilemma Situations: Experimental Manipulations." Acta Psychologica, 1988, 68, 83-97. With Robyn Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt.

Reprinted in William M. Goldstein and Robin M. Hogarth. (Eds.) Research on Judgment and Decision Making. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

"Explaining Discussion-induced Cooperation." 1988. Journal of Personality and Social

Psychology, 54, 811-819. With Robyn Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt. "Sherlock Holmes as a Social Scientist," 1988. The Political Science Teacher, 1, Fall, 15-19.

With Veronica Ward. "Are People who Cooperate Rational Altruists?" 1988. Public Choice, 56, 233-248. With

Alphons van de Kragt and Robyn Dawes "Understanding and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas." 1988. Public Choice, vol 57, 275-280.

With David Goetze. "Doing Well and Doing Good as Ways of Resolving Social Dilemmas," in H. Wilke, D. Messick

and C. Rutte, Social Dilemmas, Frankfurt/Main, Lang. GmbH. 1986. With Robyn M. Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt.

"Organizing Groups for Collective Action." 1986. The American Political Science Review,

December. With Robyn M. Dawes, Randy Simmons and Alphons van de Kragt.

Reprinted in: Donald R. Kinder & Thomas Palfrey (eds.). Experimental Foundations of Political Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

"Response to Calvert and Wilson." 1985. American Political Science Review, September. With


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Alphons van de Kragt and Robyn M. Dawes. "Do Cooperators Exit More Readily Than Defectors?" 1984. American Political Science Review,

March. With Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Randy Simmons. "Two Pedagogical Games." 1984. News for Teachers of Political Science, Summer. With Steven

Maser. "The Minimal Contributing Set as a Solution to Public Goods Problems." 1983. American

Political Science Review, March. With Robyn M. Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt. "Cooperation in Social Dilemma Situations: Thinking About It Doesn't Help," in Research in

Experimental Economics, Volume 3, 1982. With Robyn M. Dawes "Social Dilemmas," in Progress in Applied Social Psychology, Volume I, G.M. Stephenson and

J.M. Davis, eds., 1981. With Robyn M. Dawes. "The Governance of Rivers" 1979. Western Political Quarterly, September. With L.A. Wilson,

II. "The Uses of Expanded Majorities." 1978. American Political Science Review, December. With

L.A. Wilson, II. "Institutional Solutions to the N-Prisoners' Dilemma." 1978. American Political Science Review,

June. With L.A. Wilson, II. "A Proposal to Establish a Centre for the Study of New Zealand Society." 1974. Australia and

New Zealand Journal of Sociology, October. With Geoffrey Fougere. "Social Peace as a Collective Good." 1974. British Journal of Political Science, Volume 4. With

Brent Rutherford. "Can Leviathan Make Life of Man Less Solitary, Poore, Nasty, Brutish, and Short?" 1973.

British Journal of Political Science, October. With Brent Rutherford. "A Theory of Neighborhood Problem-Solving: Political Action vs. Residential Mobility." 1972.

American Political Science Review, June. With Toro Uno. "Intra-Party Conflict and the Decay of Ideology." 1973. Journal of Politics, May. With Geoffrey

Fougere. "Grass Roots Enthusiasm and the Primary Vote; McCarthy and Kennedy in Oregon" 1972.

Western Political Quarterly, June. With Robyn M. Dawes and Nancy J. Collins. "The Structure of Graduate Education in Departments of Political Science," 1972. P.S., Winter.


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With Alvin Mushkatel and Lawrence Pierce. "An Information-flow Theory of Community Influence," 1970. Journal of Politics, May. "The Impact of Metropolitan Residence on Social and Political Orientations," 1970 Social

Science Quarterly. December. "Racial Attitudes and the Metropolitan Context: A Structural Analysis," 1969. The Public

Opinion Quarterly, Spring. With Kenneth Sherrill. "Protest Participation Among Southern Negro College Students," 1967. American Political

Science Review, June. Reprinted Bobs Merrill reprint series in the social sciences, 1969. BOOK REVIEWS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN: The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, The Australia and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, and others. RESEARCH GRANTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM: (All the NSF grants between 1979 and 1987 were in conjunction with Robyn Dawes and Alphons van de Kragt. The 1992 and 1990 grants were with Dawes only.) National Science Foundation; Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (a Foundation-Wide

program). Budgeted for four years, starting June 2010. The project involves three researchers from Stony Brook (O. Smirnov, Project PI; Co-PI Haipeng Xing; Co-PI Minghua Zhang; $602,058); and three from the University of Oregon (J. Orbell, Oregon PI; Douglas Kennett, Co-PI; Amy Lobben Co-PI; $906,609).

National Science Foundation “Deciding to Enter Cooperative Relationships; Does Framing

Matter?” Co-PI, with Mikhail Myagkov, Two years, starting summer 2006; $300,000. National Science Foundation. “The Evolution of Cognitive Capacities for Cooperation and

Conflict.” PI, with Tomonori Morikawa and Nicholas Allen, Oregon Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. Two years, starting early summer, 1998. $127,000.

National Science Foundation. “The Formation of Self Organized Groups.” Co-PI with Holly

Arrow, Psychology Department, University of Oregon. January 1st, 1998. $190,000. National Science Foundation. “Wireless Laboratory for Interpersonal Cognition.” Co-PI with

Bertram Malle, Psychology Department, University of Oregon. June 1st, 1997. $40,000 National Science Foundation, "Cooperators' Advantage Through Selective Play," Decision,

Risk and Management Program, June 1st, 1992. $100,000. SES-9208534


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An extension of the above grant through the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program of NSF; to support an undergraduate research assistant

National Science Foundation, "A cognitive theory of cooperators' advantage." (1990), SES-

9008157. $41,000. National Science Foundation "Moral choice under laissez faire and collective choice decision

rules." (1986-1987), SES-86052284; $74,957 National Science Foundation "The propensity to contribute to public goods." (1984), SES-

8308601; $64,495. National Science Foundation "Effects of discussion on cooperative behavior in game theoretic

settings." (1983). SES-8308601; $94,000. National Science Foundation to extend the work being done under the '81 grant, SES-8105695. National Science Foundation "Experimental research in social dilemmas," (1981), SES-

8105692; $83,753. National Science Foundation, "Experimental research in social dilemmas," (1979), SOC-

7906131; $77,492. The Ford Foundation for a study of Graduate Education in Political Science Departments in the

United States (1970). Office of Education for an expansion of the study of graduate education. The National Science Foundation for the study of the impact of neighborhood conditions of

social and political behavior (1966), $21,000.


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